Ali Maali (Dubai)
After an absence of 166 days of scoring in general, the Congolese Ben Malango returned with a “double” that made his team Sharjah return victorious from Abu Dhabi over Al Wahda team in the 22nd round of the ADNOC Professional League, to inflame the tripartite struggle for the runner-up of the league with “Al-Zaeem Al-Ainawi” approaching the crowning of the title.
The player also returned to record “doubles” after an absence of 323 days, as his last double with his former team Raja Casablanca was against Ittihad Tangiers on June 16, 2021 in the 22nd round of the local league, the same round in which the Congolese scored against Al-Wahda recently. .
A difficult period that Bin Malango experienced during the last period, as he has been absent from the opponents’ net in the ADNOC Professional League since the tenth round in which Sharjah met Khorfakkan on November 20, 2021, and ended that day with the “King” winning 3-1, and since then the player has missed his favorite hobby The “Al Annabi” match came to restore the confidence of scoring again.
This is the second time that Malango has scored two goals in one match, and the first time was against Al Wasl in the third round match in the league, which ended with the “King” 3-2 superiority, and Malango’s third goal came at the time in the 94th minute, the fifth time in his professional career that he scored During which “two goals” in one match, when he was with the Moroccan club Raja Casablanca, he scored on 3 occasions in the local league.
The first time in his first season in the Moroccan League 2019-2020, where he scored 5 goals, including two goals in his team’s match against Ittihad Tangier on January 15, 2020, and in the following season with Raja, he scored a “hat-trick” in the matches of Maghreb Tetouan and Ittihad Tangier in a season in which he scored 16 goals.
Malango’s duets did not stop at the local league matches. His CAF Champions League career was exciting in these duels, both with Moroccan Raja, and before him with Congolese TP Mazembe, and for example, he succeeded in the ranks of Raja to score two goals against the South African team Orlando Pirates in May 2021, With TP Mazembe in 2018, he scored two goals against the Algerian ES Setif, and in 2017, against the Sudanese Al Hilal.
With Malango scoring two goals against Al-Wahda, the player raised his score to 8 goals, becoming the King’s top scorer after Brazilian Caio Lucas (10 goals).
And the Romanian Cosmin Olario, the Sharjah coach, had previously stated that Malango needs time to return to scoring in light of the injury he sustained and kept him out of the stadiums for a while, and that pushing him in the matches will be gradually until he regains his full strength.
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